mouth organ
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Her lovingly sly Haydn-esque wit came out in the premiere of “Nest Box,” a duo for her and Wu Wei on sheng, the Chinese mouth organ.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2025
Phil Lindberg’s magnetometer moment involved the aforementioned mouth organ.
From Washington Post • Oct. 25, 2021
Lennon also recalls a Christmas memory in which he reached into a stocking and found a present of a mouth organ.
From BBC • Sep. 13, 2021
The first time I heard “Su” — Unsuk Chin’s 2009 concerto for sheng, a Chinese mouth organ — I nearly jumped out of my chair.
From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2019
Somebody tried to say that it was a mouth organ harp that John was playing, but the rest of them would not hear that.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
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